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Overview/Features

The DEC2540-T is a digital receiver set-top box that it is equipped with an USB port, allowing it to be used either as a PC peripheral or as a standalone STB (i.e. used without a PC). It is similar to the DEC2000-T but comes equipped with a Conax(?) decrypt card slot. Decryption is not supported under GNU/Linux. The device is only sold in the Netherlands.

The device's TV-Out can't be used for PC output.

The device can only deliver a partial/modified TS stream to userspace: due to the limited bus bandwidth provided by USB 1.1, of approximately 12Mbps, only selected PIDs can be transferred over USB to the host system. Consequently, some high bandwidth transponders won't work, and HDTV reception is not possible.

One can watch digital TV with this device using xine, or alternatively record the incoming stream via cat'ting /dev/dvb.
It will not work with VDR as a primary device because it does not have a hardware MPEG-2 decoder.

{huh? isn't this more a case of a VDR limitation, as it appears that device does indeed feature an onboard decoder ?}

However, it can be used in VDR as a soft-device, streaming or xine or as secondary device.

Playback and channel changing (via the playlist) is possible with gxine.

Set up the channels with scan (e.g. scan -o zap /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/<country>-<region> > ~/.xine/channels.conf)